1. Let’s talk about this. You should care. This understanding of humanity is a big part of why America is so messed up and the culture war is happening at all. This idea that what I do in private with other consenting adults does not affect other people. This is deeply wrong. 🧵
2. The above worldview assumes that we are, as human beings, all fully autonomous individuals, monads which are morally and spiritually isolated and disconnected from each other. We have no connection whatsoever on any level with any other human being.
3. This worldview asserts that any bonds which I make with any other person are completely and fully voluntary, and based entirely on our mutual consent which can be withdrawn at any time without effect. My actions are uniquely my own.
4. This, if a person does something by themselves or two people consent to do things together, their actions do not affect any other persons in any way. We as human beings are fully discreet entities. Privacy creates a kind of protective seal that walls off my actions.
5. In this worldview, the only discussion becomes that of the age of consent and under what conditions can consent be adequately assumed. The power dynamics of consent become the only true moral question. This is true of life and death. If I consent, you should be able to kill me
6. This worldview is a denial, though, of much of how we experience the world. It is a denial of the idea that we share any collective life together at all with any other human beings. The very idea of a culture is not a thing.
7. We all know intuitively that this is not the case. Friends develop a “bond.” We connect with people. We develop deep marriage bonds. Families have a unique shared character, a connection that is based on genetics as well as the life they live together.
8. These bonds are unseen an intangible, spiritual you might say. And they scale upwards to a community. We all recognize that other cultures are different than our own and they share a character that is unique to them as a group.
9. This idea that people are morally autonomous beings unconnected to others is an relatively recent innovation in thinking. Throughout most of history it was assumed that we as human beings were connected through a shared human nature.
10. This idea of a shared human nature asserts that we as human beings are all bound together to other human beings at a metaphysical level. Much of the core of Christian theology is built on this understanding, original sin and the mechanics of salvation assume a human nature.
11. We know this to be true. In a marriage, if the husband is in the privacy of his own room looking at porn, this is not his own choice that has no effect on his wife or his children. It’s a betrayal. Not only that, it corrupts his relationship with his wife.
12. In the same way, because of our shared human nature, our cultural and communal bonds, the things which we do in private affect the shared collective life we have as a people. We are like a body. If one part is sick, the whole body is sick.
13. All of these degenerate sexual practices, even when done in private, and done consensually, do negatively impact the whole of society. They make us collectively sicker and more degenerate as a culture, as a people.
14. So, yes, you should care what is happening in people’s bedrooms. Their degeneracy is making you more degenerate. Or at the very least, it makes it harder for you act in a way that is virtuous. It prevents society collectively from acting virtuously.
15. And if you cannot stir yourself to protect yourself and your culture, the very fact that they are doing it puts your children at risk. Do you really want your children to grow up in a society filled with closet degenerates?
16. Addendum: it has been interesting to see how many Americans simply accept the breakdown of the social fabric as normal. Bedroom morality used to be enforced by communities. Eventually, if communities don’t impose morality, the state will: seekingthehiddenthing.com/p/the-loss-of-…
17. Some may find this helpful:
18. This piece of mine goes into the topic of individualism and Christian teaching: seekingthehiddenthing.com/p/the-christia…
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